- Our next guests are all about sharing the horror stories
and highlights of being a mom
with their podcast book and comedy tour,
I Mom So Hard.
Let's welcome Kristin Hensley and Jen Smedley.
Give it up y'all!
(scary music)
(child scream effect)
- Wow!
- We're quadruplets, amazing.
- [Kelly] Come on.
(Kelly laughing)
- They put me in Spanx,
which is the scariest part of this costume.
- Oh my God, this was my one costume I didn't,
so I'm not wearing Spanx. I'm happy.
- I am like a sausage right now.
- I am so free right now,
just living my best flabby life.
- You all have pretty costumes.
- Yeah, you guys look cool.
- Well this is Lonnie, this is Rose,
and you guys, this is awesome.
This is great.
- The Shining.
- We're the twins from The Shining.
- Yeah, but we're more like the Irish twins
'cause I'm so short. Like she's the older sibling.
- [Kristin] Irish twins are actually way scarier
than the Shining twins.
Because if you have Irish twins, well done.
- [Jen] You haven't slept in a long time.
- You haven't slept, but you slept one time...
Too many times.
(laughs)
- So wait, are you ready for Halloween?
Like with the kiddos tonight?
- We can't wait.
I'm a big Halloween fan, and we always go to Kristin's house
'cause she has this amazing Halloween neighborhood.
- Yes.
- And so it's our tradition
that we get the families together and we trick or treat.
And I also have this tradition
of losing one of my children in her neighborhood.
So let's see if it goes every year four in a row. Yeah.
- But they're getting older, so now we're like,
"They're gonna want their candy. They're gonna come back."
- [Kelly] They're gonna come back.
- You know.
- [Kelly] It's like dogs, they know that you feed them.
- [Kristin] Right.
- [Kelly] Aww, they're so cute.
- [Kristin] I Know. Mine's in middle school.
I'm like, if you get lost for three days since-
I'm just kidding.
It's fine.
- So wait, how's the comedy tour going?
- It's going really well.
We're towards the end of our third tour,
which is pretty crazy.
- [Kelly] Yeah. That's busy.
- It is busy,
and we have a few shows left in the Chicago area,
and then we are taking a break,
and we won't tour again until late into 2023.
So we get to be home with kids and families
and then it gives us a little time to wanna leave again.
- [Jen] Get caught up on life, do our Christmas shopping.
That won't happen.
- We won't do that.
- We'll wait 'til the last minute.
- We'll wait.
- We will.
- So wait, so for the past few Halloweens
we've done a digital series that's featured some truly,
truly creepy toddler stories, like this.
(scary music)
"When my son was two years old, he started to name new toys
with the name Joe.
Stuffed animal, dog, pet fish, et cetera.
And we named all of them Joe, I guess.
We thought it was an odd name for a child to use
for his pet fish, but just went with it.
Then he had told me he no longer wanted to sleep
with his stuffed dog.
He told me it was because the lights play
with it at night and he doesn't like the lights.
Shortly after we found out that an old man died
in our house and yes, his name was Joe.
Oh no!
Nope. Nope.
And that's when I move.
- [Jen] Tunk! Tunk! Tunk! For sale.
- Yeah, no.
I don't do, I'm not like excited about that lifestyle.
So today with-
No one is, why did I say it like that?
Okay. So today with the help of Kristen and Jen,
we are bringing you more creepy kids stories
sent in by moms across the nation.
So let's grab our flashlight and get ready to be scared.
Here we go.
Jen, you've got the first creepy kiddo story.
So, and this is yours.
- Well, this story's extra creepy
because it's my actual daughter that did it.
So a few years ago we moved into a new house,
and a few weeks in she said,
"Have you seen the purple people walking around the house
Mom?"
And I said, "No baby, what do they look like?"
And she said, "Well they wear these long purple gowns
and they have crowns on their head
and they're kind of see through.
But don't worry," she said,
"They won't do anything bad to you."
I always assume that my houses are built
on like a sacred burial ground or something like that.
And that they're cursed 'cause why wouldn't they be?
And I said, "Well, why are they here baby?"
And she said, "Come here. They're here for daddy."
(haunting music)
- [Kelly] What?!
- So if anybody wants to buy a three-two in Tarzano,
I'll give you a great deal on it.
(Kelly laughing)
- Oh my God. "They're here for for daddy."
- They're here for for daddy.
- Did you tell your husband this?
- Yeah I told him, Yeah.
- "You better look out."
- Purple robes.
That sound like my church choir.
(audience laughing)
- So wait, Lonnie, you've actually got the next one.
- Oh okay. All right.
- Oh, work that with those nails.
- Okay, here we go.
Here's a viewer story from a mom named Allie.
"When my daughter was two years old,
we walked past her daycare's old garage."
Sorry for the one fang.
"Every day she would look up the stairs
of the window of the garage and wave.
One day I asked her who she was waving at,
and she turned to me and smiled
while shrugging and said, 'Pete.'
I was freaked out, but let it drop.
Until years later when my son, who was two and a half,
we drove by the same window to drop him off.
He'd never been there before.
He looks up at the window waves and says softly.
'Hi Pete.'
(haunting music)
And that was the end of that daycare!
- That kinda stuff, oh man!
I wish you really hope it's not real.
Okay. Time for one more.
This is my turn.
- All right. Come on Kelly!
- Here we go.
- Yes, yes, yes.
- It's getting spooky.
Okay, here we go.
Okay. So this is weird to see your face like that.
Okay. This is from Kelly Kimball on my staff.
Okay.
"Charlotte, my daughter had a bunch of friends
and families over to celebrate her fifth grade graduation.
Okay. As I was passing out pieces of cake,
I asked her friend Summer to go count how many more pieces
of cake we needed.
Summer comes back and says, I think just one more
unless the lady with the red hair wants a piece.
Bewildered, I asked her 'What lady?'
And she said, 'The one in the guest house wearing white.'"
What?
"My mom had passed away a few years earlier
in the guest house.
I showed summer a photo of my mom and asked, 'This lady?'
And she said, 'Yes.'"
(haunting music)
What?!
- That was grandma coming to visit.
- I know, but should grandma just stay away?
Like I just, I just feel like grandma should stay away.
I feel like we had our time, right?
Like I, that creeps me out.
Oh my gosh.
And then a part of me is like,
do you run out there to see if you can see her
and have a talk?
Like what do you do?
Like, I don't know.
- I think you talk to Summer
and you say, "Quit keeping tabs
on how much cake everybody's eating."
(everybody laughs)
It's a party okay.
- Nobody likes that person.
- Yeah.
- All right.
And that's creepy kids stories around the campfire.
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